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“I want my research to matter”
Published Mar 17, 2021He is passionate about sustainable development. Francesco Fuso Nerini’s motive to make his work known to others is simple: to make a difference. ”As researchers we have a duty to produce quality resea...
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Highest citation and best paper for unusual trio
Published Mar 10, 2021Three ITM Professors from two different departments form the team behind JMS Best Paper Award for 2020 – celebrating the highest citations during five years. The cooperation is a little unusual, but i...
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Accelerating the transition to clean and modern cooking for the 3 billion people without access
Photo credit: Youssef Boulkaid Published Mar 10, 2021More than 3 billion people worldwide still do not have access to clean cooking, which results in around 4 million premature deaths annually related to household air pollution (WHO, 2018), and in a num...
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Aiming for faster material development
MMD coordinator Carl Dahlberg (SCI), Director Annika Borgenstam (ITM), and Vice Director Per-Lennart Larsson (SCI). Published Mar 03, 2021Mechanics and Materials Science are two disciplines with their own research methods, their own terminology and strong traditions within KTH. The Center for Mechanics and Materials Design (MMD) is a ne...
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Fabian Levihn guest in the finance podcast Avanza
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Webinars arouse research interest
Poto: Louis Reed and ThisisEngineering, Stockholms universitet. Published Mar 02, 2021The House of Science wants to inspire high school students to choose educations in science, technology, and mathematics. In their popular webinars, researchers from KTH and Stockholm University talk a...
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Open position as Industrial PhD student at NIBE
Published Feb 23, 2021One of Europe’s leading manufacturers of heat pumps, NIBE, together with Electricité de France (EDF) is looking for an industrial ph.d. student, to be supervised from the French university Mines Paris...
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K-ULF Teachers and researchers collaborate for a strong research project together.
Published Feb 23, 2021The main purpose of the Compensatory Teaching for Learning and Research Project [K-ULF] is to increase research in collaboration between higher education institutions and local municipalities.
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Average and Marginal CO2eq emission factors
Published Feb 22, 2021On Friday the 4th, a seminar/discussion about Marginal and Average CO2 eq emission factors took place online. It had been organized by EGI PhD students to try to get a better understanding of this top...
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ATS - Assessment of Transversal Skills in STEM
Published Feb 18, 2021Assessment of Transversal Skills in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is an innovative project implemented in eight EU countries and involving a partner network of 12 educational...
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Merging art with cutting edge technology
Published Feb 17, 2021What do you get if you combine art and advanced technology? Well, for example, the artwork Being Unthinkable - a robot sculpture that is floating four meters above the ground at IBM's headquarters in ...
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Robotic 3D printing that can speed up production
Fahad Ahmad Khan next to the robotic 3D printer. Published Feb 10, 2021Hi Fahad Ahmad Khan, you have built a 3D printer from scratch that is collaborating with an industrial robot hand. What is robotic 3D printing - compared to “ordinary” 3D printing?
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A research facility with superpowers
Hi energy X-rays reveal the secrets of materals. Photo: Jens Birch. Published Feb 10, 2021What if it was possible to measure what happens to molecules as they react deep inside materials. To see what happens inside steel when it is manufactured, inside batteries when they are charging and ...
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Death of cash
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Great efforts! From the Advanced Service Design students
Published Feb 08, 2021The students had an unusual task in their course from us at The department of Learning.
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Challenges when cyber systems meet humans
The self-driving car is just one example where cyber systems interact with physical systems and people. Photo: G.M. Cruise Published Feb 03, 2021In our homes and surroundings, computer systems are hiding that both measure and control things, often connected to the Internet. What happens when they fail? Do we still have electricity, water, food...
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Wanted: ventilation team for buildings post corona
KTH Live-In Lab wants to find partners interested in how to ensure risk free indoor space during a challenge such as the corona virus. Published Feb 03, 2021Will ventilation systems in future buildings be designed in a different way to minimize spread of bacteria and virus? This question is raised by KTH Live-In Lab who’s looking for new partners to solve...
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Crowdfunded women better at reaching funding goals
Published Feb 02, 2021Backed up by women, female entrepreneurs at crowdfunding platforms reach their funding goals more often than men. Hadar Gafni at the Department of Industrial Economics and Management has mapped the ge...
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Successful PhD defence by Jenny Gabriela Pena Balderrama
Published Feb 02, 2021On the 18th December 2020, Jenny Gabriela Pena Balderrama from the division of Energy Systems KTH-dES, successfully defended her PhD thesis on the topic “Exploring low-carbon development pathways for ...
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Testing the transport system of the future
Chirag Savant, researcher and responsible for the three vehicle platforms at ITRL, controls the RCV-E platform outside the centre. Photo: Alexandra von Kern. Published Jan 27, 2021Transport is a rapidly developing area with self-driving cars and robots around the corner. It also affects everyone in society. The research centre ITRL provides society and industry with the basis f...
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